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MEDiakitab association, located in Marseille, is in charge of administrating the blog. Contents are a reflection of the activities, analysis and knowledge developped by the network members.

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Introducing digital culture in Milan Librairies

Developping links between printed and digital culture in libraries

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Session multimédia à Milan ©zinc-LD

The networks of Milan City libraries took the opportunity of MEDiakitab meeting to ask ZINC to present an introductive workshop about digital art and practices to the staff of the 26  libraries. Two members of “le Petit lecteur d’Oran” and the responsible of the training department from Egyptian catholic [...]

Stop motion training in Alexandria

Let's organize creative and multimedia workshops !

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From 6th to 9th of June, ZINC proposed a training on how to lead a workshop with children and young people to create a stop-motion movie, in the frame of cultural or educational projects. Participants are teachers from schools or cultural coordinators from libraries or cultural organization.

Members from MEDiakitab network and educational Egyptian [...]

The access to the culture through reading and storytelling

Cultural activities with books

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For a few years now Lebanon expands the publishing for children. This sector, which becomes more and more creative and dynamic, comes across many difficulties though: most of the authors, publishers and booksellers are concentrated in Beirut, the books for children are still very expensive and it’s difficult for the libraries to organize [...]

Milan librarians stay in ZINC

Sharing experience and digital workshops

On December first, second and third of 2010, three librarians from Milan libraries are received in ZINC in Marseille, as interns. It was a first exchange about experiences with digital tools in activities with children. ZINC team imagined the days as an opportunity to have professional exchange about practices and reflexion.  The [...]

Sharing cultural diversity

Dialogue with Arts and Heritage across Europe and Mediterranean

The 16th and the 17th of September 2010, the Cultural Mediation department of the University Marseille Provence holds in Marseille an international conference on experiences of both actors and Arts and Heritage cultural facilities. Libraries, art centers, museums, theatrical creation, as well as publishers and translators – currently in contact with increasingly diverse audiences – [...]

IT training fot teachers in Egypt

Developping new educative tools within French speaking schools

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Egyptian Catholic Schools Training Consultant

June 2010

“Teacher training” © CFECE-cairo

Technology for Improved Learning Outcomes-TILO is designed to improve the quality of teaching, learning and school management thanks to the use of technology by pupils in schools. The American Agency for International Development & Technology and Technology for Improved Learning Outcomes are working [...]

Tamer Institute for community Education

Reading promotion as a tool for the young educative and cultural development in Palestine

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Intervention for the Mediakitab meeting – Marseille by Samar Qutob

Tamer’s profile :

Tamer Institute for Community Education is a Palestinian educational non-profit organization established in 1989 as a natural and necessary response to the urgent needs of the Palestinian community during the first intifada (uprising).

The most important of these [...]

School libraries in Egypt

Role of school librairans and new technologies in educative action

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By Soha Saad-Wakim, Coordinator at the Catholic Schools Training Centre in Alexandria

Libraries and information services undoubtedly play a key role in access to essential documentary resources. Their action encourages cultural development and contributes to maintaining intellectual freedom. School libraries are supposed to make an important service structure available related to the school’s aims. These [...]

Story-telling from the Maghreb to Provence and the Middle East tradition

The role of libraries in passing on oral heritage

Contes Palestiniens

A cultural cooperation programme based on popular stories from around the Mediterranean in the of Governorate of Bethlehem entitled ” The role of libraries in passing on oral heritage: stories in the Maghreb, Middle East and Provence“. The aim of this project was to:

Develop Palestinian oral heritage as the basis of the Palestinian community [...]